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Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

She recreates Alice’s world, describing the poverty in which she and her co-workers, including children, lived, utilizing reports of government Factory and Workshop inspectors and, on the U.S. Only–Virginia Woolf was not in Surrey on December 14th, 1918. and the Importation of Plumage (Prohibition) Act of 1921 in Great Britain).

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Steven M. Wise on Farm Animals

Animal Ethics

Their interests are primarily protected, if at all, through archaic state anti-cruelty statutes that were not passed in contemplation of the factory-farm or genetic engineering. Though factory-farming and biotechnological techniques massively violate the moral rights of farm animals, they have no remedy.